No jail for builder with rifle outside courthouse

A property developer caught with a rifle outside the Four Courts after his business “went down the drain”, has escaped a jail sentence.

Widower Padraig Hennessy (aged 44), a father-of-three with an address at The Commons, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, had pleaded guilty to possessing a bolt-action .22 calibre rifle without a licence at Inn's Quay, in Dublin, on September 5 last.